Method of making shoes



Filed Nov. 11, 1935 July 26, 1938.

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July 26 1938, l s BOWN 2;.i24ifi27 METHOD OF MAKING SHOES Filed Nov. 11, 1935 Sheets-3heet 2 O0 \o oqcoooo 0 O O o O 0 000000 0 0 0 000 O q 0000 0 nce N000 0 0 oo 0 0 0 d o 0 0O 0%9000 0 0 0 00 0 0 coooooo 0 000000 00 00 0 00 0000 Qo'ooooocoooo Patented July 26, 1938 PATENT OF'FECE METHOD OF MAKINGSHOES Samuel Bown, St. Louis County, 'Mor, assignor to International Shoe Company, St. Louis, Mo., a corporation of Delaware Application November 11, 1933; Serial Nor 697,572

13 Claims.

This invention relates to a method'of making shoes, and has special reference to a method'of making a vamp structure preparatory for embodiment in shoes.

In a specific sense the present invention comprises a method of making a vamp structure including-inner and outer members simultaneously perforated while parts thereof are secured together by permanent attaching means, in combination with a box toe member secured between the toe portions of said inner and outer members in a relationship in which preformed openings in the box toe member register with the previously formed openings in said inner and outer members.

Objects of the invention are to provide an improved method of making a vamp structure comprising superimposed inner'and outer members of flexible and pliable material attached together in superimposed relationship and simultaneously perforated throughout selected areas thereof to provide openings which may function both as ventilating and as ornamenting means; to provide a box toe member with openings therethrough adapted to be brought into registration with the openings through said inner and outer members when the box toe member is assembled in proper position between said inner and outer members; to provide a novel method of locating the box toe member in proper position upon the inner member and the outer member upon the box toe member in a position in which the openings through said three members are in registration; and to attach said three members together in their final relationship.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved method for assembling together the three members of a vamp structure consisting of inner and outer members and an interposed box toe member having preformed perforations registering with perforations through said inner and outer members formed before the placement of the box toe member in connection with said inner and outer members.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved method of making a vamp structure comprising flexible and pliable inner and outer members having portions thereof permanently attached together and provided with perforations formed through said two members while they are attached together, in'combination with a box toe member having preformed perforations therethrough located between the toe portions of said inner and outer members and attached thereto in a relationship in which the perforations through said box toe member register with the perforations through said inner and outer members.

' Other-objects of the invention should be apparent from the following description, reference being made-to the annexed-drawings, in which- Fig. 1 is a plan viewof the outer member of the vamp structure, apart thereof being broken away to disclose the underlying inner member.

- Fig; 2 is a longitudinal sectional View on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a plan view similar to Fig. 1 showing the perforations formed through the inner and outer'mem-bers after they-have been assembled in the relationship shown-in Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig: 4 'is-a side edgeelevation of the attached inner andouter members of the vamp structure shown in Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 Ba longitudinal sectional view on the line 55 of Fig. 3.

'Fig; 6-is a planview of the box toe-member having the'perforations therethrough adapted to register with theperforations through the inner andouter-mem'bers of the vamp structure.

Fig. '7 is a longitudinal sectional View of the box toemember on the line 'l--'l of Fig; 6.

Fig. 8 is a planview of the box toemember with portionsof the outer member broken away, and showing the manner in which the box toe member is assembled'and located in proper position' between the inner and outer members; so that the preformed perforations through the box toe member register with the perforations that are formed through the inner and outer members before the box toe member is located and placed between said inner and outer members.

Fig. 9 is a longitudinal sectional view of the vamp" structure onthe line 99 of Fig. 8, the template-being shown in side elevation.

Fig.-10 isa-perspective view of the template employed to locate the box toe member in proper relationship with respect to the inner and outer members of the vamp structure, so that the preformed perforations through the box toe member will register with r the preformed perforations through the inner and outer members.

-My improved vamp structure comprises a flexible and pliable outer member l, a correspondingly shaped flexible andpliable inner member 2 and a box toe-member 3, said three members being processed aid assembled in proper cooperative relationship substantially as herein shown and described.

The members I and 2 are of approximately the same size and shape. After said members I and 2 are formed and before they are perforated a relatively thick and heavy coat of cold quick drying cement 4 is placed upon the rear portion of that surface of the member 2 that is toward the member I or upon the corresponding surface of the member I or upon said surfaces of both of said members I and 2, said heavy coating extending about to the line 5 and covering the entire surface of at least one of said members. A lighter coating 6 of similar cement is applied to the remaining surface of the member 2 or to the member I or to both of said members I and 2.

Then the member I is superimposed upon the member 2 while both of said members are spread fiatwise, the edges of said two members being in approximate registration and arranged symmetrically, and pressure is applied to cause the cement coatings I and 6 to form an adhesive attachment securing said two members together.

Next, and after the adhesive cement has dried to a sufficient extent to hold the members I and 2 in proper relationship, numerous perforations 2 are died or cut through both of said members in front of the line 5 and numerous perforations 8 are died or cut through both of said members to the rear of the line 5. All of these perforations may be died or cut simultaneously.

Also numerous perforations 9, corresponding in number and in spacing to the number and spacing of the perforations I, are died or cut through the box toe member 3 and said box toe member is provided with attenuated or tapering edges I8 formed by skiving said member 3 along its edges. The perforations 9 are of somewhat larger diameter than the perforations I, which construction facilitates the placement of the toe box member 3 between the members I and 2 in such a relationship that the perforations 9 register with the perforations I through both of said members I and 2.

The template which I employ to locate the member 3 in proper relationship for attachment to the members I and 2 comprises a body II having a plurality of upwardly extending parallel pins I2.

After the members I and 2 have been attached permanently by the cement I and temporarily by the cement 6, the toe portions of said members I and 2 are detached or pulled apart from the front rearwardly approximately to the line 5, and the member 2 is placed upon the template I I with the pins I2 projecting through a corresponding number of the holes 'I through said member 2, the toe portion of the member I being rolled or supported upwardly out of engagement with the pins I2.

The box toe member 3 is then coated with cement and placed upon the upper surface of the member 2 in proper relationship thereto, the pins I2 being extended through a corresponding number of the holes 9 and thereby bringing all of said holes 9 into registration With a corresponding number of the holes I through the inner member 2 of the vamp structure.

Then the toe portion of the member I is pressed downwardly upon the cement coated upper surface of the member 3 and sufficient pressure is applied to cause said cement to form a strong connection uniting the members I and 2 to the interposed member 3 in a relationship in which the holes 9 through the member 3 register with a corresponding number of holes "I through both of the members I and 2. This proper registration of the holes 9 with a corresponding number of the holes I through both members I and 2 is assured by the proper placement of the member 3 upon the member 2 by means of the pins I2 which require such registration of said holes; and said pins I2 also require the holes 9 to register with the holes 1 formed through the member I when said member I is placed upon the member 3 in connection with the pins I2.

After the cement has sufficiently dried, the vamp structure is removed from the template and is ready for use in making a shoe.

By this invention I am enabled to use a relatively soft and pliable member 2 and to obtain the desired stiffening of the toe portion of the vamp structure and of the shoe by the box toe member 3 and to provide registering perforations which may function both as ornamentations and as ventilating means.

Vamp structures of this kind may be made with facility and inexpensively and provide a structure that is pleasing in appearance and that may be worn with comfort.

The arrangement and the procedure may be varied Within the scope of equivalent limits without departure from the nature and principle of the invention.

I claim:-

1. The method of making a shoe vamp structure including the steps of adhesively uniting inner and outer members, forming perforations through said members while they are adhesively united, separating the foreparts of said inner and outer members, placing between the forepart of said inner and outer members a box toe member having therethrough perforations larger than said first named perforations in position in which said perforations through said box toe member register with the perforations through said inner and outer members, and then adhesively uniting said box toe member with said inner and outer members in position in which the perforations through said three members are in registration.

2. The method of making a shoe vamp structure including the steps of attaching together the rear portions of inner and outer members, forming perforations through the foreparts of said inner and outer members while said members are attached together, separating the foreparts of said inner and outer members, placing between said members a box toe member having perforations therethrough larger than said first named perforations in a position in which said perforations through said box toe member register with said perforations through said imier and outer members, and then attaching together the foreparts of said inner and outer members and said box toe member.

3. The method of making a shoe vamp structure including the steps of attaching together inner and outer members, forming perforations through said inner and outer members while they are attached together, separating the foreparts of said inner and outer members, forming perforations through a box toe member of larger size than said perforations through the foreparts of said inner and outer members, mechanically holding said box toe member upon one of said first named members in a location in which said perforations through said box toe member register with said perforations through that one of said first named members upon which said box toe member is placed, and then mechanically locating the other one of said first named members upon said box toe member in a position in which said perforations through said other member register with said perforations through said box toe member.

4. The method of making a shoe vamp structure including the steps of attaching together inner and outer members, forming perforations through said inner and outer members while they are attached together, separating the foreparts of said inner and outer members, forming perforations through a box toe member of larger size than said perforations through the foreparts of said inner and outer members, mechanically holding said box toe member upon one of said first named members in a location in which said perforations through said box toe member register with said perforations through that one of said first named members upon which said box toe member is placed, then mechanically locating the other one of said first named members upon said box toe member in a position in which said perforations through said other member registers with said perforations through said box toe memher, and then applying pressure to said members and adhesively uniting them.

5. The method of making a shoe vamp structure including the steps of providing an assembly of inner and outer members having a mass of openings therethrough, separating the foreparts of said inner and outer members, forming a mass of perforations through a box toe member in an arrangement corresponding to the arrangement of openings in one of said first named members, mechanically holding said box toe member upon that one of said first named members in a location in which said perforations through said box toe member register with said openings through that one of said first named members, and then locating the other of said first named members upon said box toe member in a position in which openings through said other member register with perforations through said box toe member.

6. The method of making a shoe vamp structure including the steps of providing an assembly of inner and outer members having a mass of openings therethrough, separating the fore parts of said inner and outer members, forming a mass of perforations through a box toe member in an arrangement corresponding to the arrangement of openings in one of said first named members, mechanically holding said box toe member upon that one of said first named members in a location in which said perforations through said box toe members register with said openings through that one of said first named members, and while thus mechanically held; bringing the other member of said assembly of first named members into contact with the box toe member, and adhesively uniting all of said members together.

'7. In the art of making shoes, the process comprising, providing a. vamp and lining having therein a mass of ventilating openings, providing a separate box toe member having therein a mass of ventilating openings, passing mechanical members through the openings in the box toe member and one of said other members, and while the mechanical members remain in the openings in said box toe member and one of said other members; adhesively uniting said vamp, lining and box toe member all together.

8. In the art of making shoes, the process comprising, assembling and connecting together an exterior upper section and its lining, simultaneously perforating a mass of appertures through said assembled exterior upper section and lining, separately perforating a stiffening member with a mass of apertures arranged in corresponding relation to the apertures in the first named parts, separating the exterior upper section and its lin ing sufficiently to permit interposition of the stiffening member, interposing the stiffening member between said exterior upper section and its lining, and connecting the stiffener to the other layers in such relation that the apertures will be alined with each other.

9. In the art of making shoes, the process comprising, perforating a vamp member with a mass of apertures, separately perforating a box toe member with a correspondingly arranged mass of apertures larger in size than the apertures of the vamp member, passing mechanical members through a plurality of selected apertures in the vamp member so that said mechanical members project through the vamp member, placing the box toe member upon the vamp member with the edges thereof in substantial alinement and with the mechanical members projecting through apertures in said box toe member, and while in such position; adhesively uniting said box toe and vamp member, supplying another perforate vamp member, and adhesively uniting said other perforate vamp member to the box toe member.

10. The method of making a shoe vamp structure including the steps of perforating a mass of apertures through a vamp member, separately perforating a mass of correspondingly arranged apertures through a box toe member, the apertures in the box toe member being larger than the apertures in the vamp member, adhesively uniting said perforated box toe member to said perforated vamp member in position such that the perforations therein register with each other, supplying another perforate vamp member, and adhesively uniting said other perforate vamp member to said box toe member so as to enclose the box toe member between the vamp members.

11. A method of making a shoe structure including a plurality of superposed parts, comprising uniting two parts, perforating said united parts simultaneously, perforating a third part similarly to the united parts, aligning the perforations of the several parts by disposing corresponding perforations about the upstanding pins of a template, and uniting said third part with said united two parts in aligned relation.

12. A method of making a shoe structure including a plurality of superposed parts, comprising permanently uniting two parts, perforating said parts simultaneously, perforating a third part with larger similarly disposed perforations, aligning the perforations of the several parts by disposing corresponding perforations about the upstanding pins of a template, and uniting said several parts in aligned relation.

13. A method of making a shoe structure comprising perforating two superposed united parts according to a pattern, perforating a third part according to the same pattern, mechanically holding said united parts and said third part in superposed relation so that corresponding perforations are aligned, and uniting said parts in this aligned relation.

SAMUEL BOWN. 

